First Reformed
Feels like a fresh discovery. More than that: an epiphany.
First Reformed
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary.
Genre
Drama,
Thriller
Runtime
113
Language
English
Director
Paul Schrader
Writer(s)
Paul Schrader
Cast
Ethan Hawke,
Amanda Seyfried,
Cedric Kyles
FEATURED REVIEW
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
‘First Reformed,” a mesmerizingly austere drama of one man’s apocalyptic crisis of faith, feels like the movie Paul Schrader was put on this planet to make. As a tense study in spiritual pain and its ultimate release, this handsome production is of a piece with Schrader’s most famous screenplays ...
Played at
NoHo 7 6.01.18 - 6.14.18
Claremont 5 6.01.18 - 6.21.18
Fine Arts Theatre 6.15.18 - 6.21.18
Royal 6.22.18 - 6.28.18
Lumiere Music Hall 6.29.18 - 7.19.18
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